Janko Janeff

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Janko Janeff , also Janev or Janew , ( Bulgarian Янко Янев ; * December 13, 1900 in Peschtera , Pazardzhik district ; † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ) was an authoritarian Bulgarian poet and philosopher.

life and work

Janko Janeff's father, Christo Janeff, was an Orthodox denomination. After attending school in Peschtera, Janko switched to high school in Plovdiv .

The University Library in Sofia

At the age of 19 he had already presented three collections of poetry: "Sünde und Kummer", "Nach Norden" (1918) and "Sehnsäden" (1919). In 1919, the admirer of the nationalist publicist Arthur Moeller van den Bruck moved to Germany. In 1920 he learned the German language in Halle. He actually wanted to study dramaturgy , but instead enrolled in philosophy. Until 1923 he was a student in Leipzig with Ernst Bergmann and Johannes Volkelt , in Freiburg im Breisgau with Edmund Husserl and Joseph Geyser and from October 26, 1922 in Heidelberg. His doctoral thesis with Heinrich Rickert , which remained unprinted, is entitled "Life and the Survivor. A Historical Examination of Henry Bergson's Metaphysics ". On July 5, 1923 he received the exmatriculation, the doctorate to Dr. phil. on January 22, 1924.

He then went back to Bulgaria and worked in Sofia in the university library. During this time the literary works were created: "Antichrist" (1926), from 1927 to 1928 two books about Hegel and from 1928 to 1932 further works followed. The extensive work “The Heroic Man” was published in Bulgaria. In 1936 “The Myth in the Balkans” was published. The text was "used as a training document in numerous NS sub-organizations".

At the invitation of the German government, Janeff went to Berlin to give lectures at the university there. In 1942 he took part in the “New Europe” conference in Dresden and gave a lecture on the subject of “The Soul of Europe”.

Janeff died on February 13, 1945 in the bombing raid on Dresden .

reception

In the post-war period, various writings by Janeff were included in the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone because they were part of National Socialist propaganda, including: The Mythos in the Balkans (Verlag für Kulturpolitik, Berlin 1935), Aufstand gegen Europa (Verlag für Kulturpolitik , Berlin 1937)., Demony of the Century (Helingsche Verlag Anstalt, Leipzig 1943)., Also 1953 in the GDR Heroism and Weltangst (Dt. Hort-Verlag, Herrsching 1937) as well as Southeast Europe and the German Spirit (Fritsch, Berlin 1943).

The Holocaust denier Erich Glagau wrote an extensive "appreciation" of Janeff. The head of the Bulgarian organization “New Right”, publisher and right-wing extremist author Anton Ratschev praised Janeff as a “cultural philosopher of world importance”, who was “understandable” for the New Right with his criticism of Western culture and with his fight against rationalism and formalism ”. be.

Works in German translation

• The myth in the Balkans , Berlin: Verl. F. Cultural Policy 1936
• Demony of the Century , Leipzig 1939
• Southeast Europe and the German Spirit , Berlin 1943

literature

• Dimitri Ginev: Between hermeneutical ontology of culture and hermeneutical logic of life. On the reception history of Dilthey's philosophy in Bulgaria. In: Dilthey yearbook. 10, 1996, ISSN  0175-0135 , pp. 246-253.
• Marie-Luise Bott: “German Slavic Studies” in Berlin? To the Slavic Institute of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University 1933–1945. In: Rüdiger vom Bruch , Christoph Jahr, Rebecca Schaarschmidt (eds.): The Berlin University in the Nazi era. Volume 2: Rüdiger vom Bruch (Ed.): Departments and faculties. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08658-7 , pp. 277-298, here pp. 288-291.
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .

Web links

• Janko Janeff Gesellschaft, Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Troebst: The Macedonian Century : From the Beginnings of the National Revolutionary Movement to the Agreement of Ohrid 1893-2001, Selected Articles, Southeast European Works 130 / Investigations on Contemporary Studies in Southeast Europe 40, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2007, ISBN 3486580507 , p. 170.
2. ↑ See Troebst, lc, 170
3. ↑ The above information according to a communication from Hans Ewald Kessler, University of Heidelberg, here according to the archive link ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Troebst, lc, 170
5. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
6. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1948 .
7. ^ List of the literature to be discarded 1953 .
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